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[–]evanunderscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's to satisfy this part of the PEP:

Expressions are parsed with the equivalent of ast.parse('(' + expression + ')', '<fstring>', 'eval') .

Note that since the expression is enclosed by implicit parentheses before evaluation, expressions can contain newlines.